East of the Sun, West of the Moon Based on the Norwegian folktale, “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” in which a white bear comes to take a poor girl away, is loved by people the world over. It is also part of a huge cycle of folklore and myth that has spanned Eurasia in the last 2500 years. Of the few Norwegian folktales known in the English-speaking world, “East of the Sun and best of the…